The Professor’s Secret Sweetheart

The premise is a collision of two worlds inside one university. Ophelia is a disadvantaged student who grew up in the slums, exploited by a harsh adoptive family and an idle adoptive brother, and who keeps up with her studies on multiple part-time jobs. Marrick is the finance professor at that same university and the heir to a top wealthy family. They do not meet in a lecture hall — they meet when she is dragged into a black-market incident while trying to pay a so-called medical bill, and he is the one who steps in.

The series runs 70 episodes in English, with the opening stretch playable on the official YourChannel player. That opening stretch covers Ophelia’s hardship, the black-market encounter, the one-night meeting, the pregnancy, Frostmoor Manor, and the return of Charis — Marrick’s ballerina ex-fiancée, who begins to target Ophelia. The longer arc of family secrets, rival schemes and the question of where Ophelia finally belongs is left to the show rather than summarised here.

What the opening stretch does is turn that rescue into a forbidden bond. After an unexpected one-night encounter, Ophelia conceives twins. Marrick appears refined, restrained and distant from others, but he is intensely possessive underneath, and he takes her to Frostmoor Manor to care for her tenderly. The teacher-student line makes the relationship forbidden from the start, and the class gap makes it fragile. The early episodes stay on that tension rather than resolving it.

Series facts checked against the YourChannel listing. Notes cover the opening episodes only; nothing here reveals the ending.

Ophelia, Marrick and Charis carry the opening arc.

Ophelia

The disadvantaged college student

A disadvantaged female college student who grew up in the slums, exploited by a harsh adoptive family and an idle adoptive brother, and keeps up with her studies through multiple part-time jobs. She meets her finance professor Marrick during a black-market incident and, after an unexpected one-night encounter, conceives twins.

Marrick

The restrained finance professor and wealthy heir

Ophelia’s university finance professor and the heir to a top wealthy family. Refined, restrained and distant on the surface, he is intensely possessive underneath, and he takes Ophelia to Frostmoor Manor to care for her tenderly once the one-night encounter changes everything.

Charis

The ballerina ex-fiancée

A ballerina with the same teardrop mole who was previously engaged to Marrick. When she returns from tour, she notices his special affection for Ophelia and begins to target her relentlessly, spreading rumors and framing her across the early arc.

Four editorial picks from the opening campus arc — the hardship, the black-market meeting, the manor and the returning ex-fiancée. No ending spoilers.

Captured from the opening episodes — not promotional art.

Written from the opening arc. These are editorial impressions, not audience scores.

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